Daniel Q. Gillion, 2017-2018 CDSP Visiting Scholar and Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Presidential Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, which will support his work on The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy.

Carnegie Corporation of New York announced the 2018 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. As part of the so-called “brainy award,” 31 scholars and writers will each receive a $200,000 stipend, making it possible for them to devote their time to significant research, writing, and publishing in the humanities and social sciences. The goal of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program is to support high caliber scholarship and research that applies fresh perspectives from the humanities and social sciences to some of the most pressing issues of our times. The topics focus on a broad range of complex political, economic, technological, humanistic, and sociological matters.